Rent Soylent Green (1973)
3.5 of 5 from 169 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
- Richard Fleischer directs this sci-fi thriller starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. In a dystopian, futuristic New York in the year 2022, almost 20 million citizens, half of the city's population, are out of work. Voluntary death is encouraged by government clinics and people live on rations of a green food called Soylent produced by the Soylent Corporation. The film follows NYPD Detective Frank Thorn (Heston) as he investigates the murder of a wealthy business magnate in the dictatorial Soylent research camp.
- Actors:
- Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Whit Bissell, Celia Lovsky, Dick Van Patten, Morgan Farley, John Barclay, Belle Mitchell, Cyril Delevanti, Forrest Wood
- Directors:
- Richard Fleischer
- Producers:
- Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher
- Writers:
- Stanley R. Greenberg, Harry Harrison
- Aka:
- Make Room! Make Room!
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, JFK on Screen, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/10/2016
- Run Time:
- 97 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, English Hard of Hearing, French, German Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Richard Fleischer and Leigh Taylor-Young
- A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
- MGM's Tribute to Edward G. Robinson's 101st Film
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Reviews (2) of Soylent Green
A Grim Prophecy - Soylent Green review by JL
A thoughtful and chilling view of a dystopian future all the more effective by a very moving final performance by a terminally ill Edward G Robinson. An instant classic with a stark warning!
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Powerful film that resonates as much today as in the early 1970s - Soylent Green review by AB
This is as powerful a film as when it was released in the early 1970s, when I first saw it. With stars Charlton Heston and an ageing Edward G Robinson giving deeply convincing performances It paints a picture in vivid detail of the end point of climate change and our dying planet. The scenorio hinges around a wealthy elite able to control the populace and maintain some sort of reasonable lifestyle while avoiding the fate of the people, who live in a hothouse of hell, with handouts of dubious flat biscuits or soylent (of the title) as food. There are also disturbing social and feminist narratives of women's exploitation by this same elite. Amazingly the original book Make Ready, Make Ready by Harry Harrison was set in 2022, so he was (hopefully) a few decades out in terms of the level of disintegration of the climate, social order and state of the planet. His population predictions were about 10 billion out too, and unsurprisingly the technology is dated. However, we watch such dystopian movies with the hope that the efforts towards renewable energy and better technologies might mitigate some of the damage. But this is one of those films you are umlikely to forget and a sharp reminder we can never be complacent in the face of our human impact on the planet and the political and social challenges we face to try to turn the juggenaut around. It is worth encouraging people particularly the younger generation to watch and take heed.
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